Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States

GFSEUS NEWS

Issue 1 (20 June 1995)

We have established this newsletter, the first in a series, as a way to inform our collaborators and others of our plans and achievements as we work toward completing the Generic Flora Project. Issue number one is likely to be longer than subsequent ones because there is a large amount of information to transmit. We hope that you will find much that is useful in what follows, and we welcome your comments, suggestions, and contributions, by e-mail or other means in the months ahead. We hope that the Generic Flora will be completed over the next four years. One hundred and forty of an anticipated 187 treatments are now in print, and several long manuscripts are under review. Because many of you have agreed to produce one or more of the remaining installments for us (see item 4), it is important for you to know what we are doing to help you with your work.

For example, a list of journals (and standardized abbreviations) that have been cited in the published installments is available on the New York State Library Gopher Server, which you can reach from your computer, if you are on the Internet. You can locate a full citation either by using the WAIS search capacity of the Gopher Server at the host computer by typing in a key word(s) or by using the search command on your office computer after you have transferred the file using file transfer protocol (FTP). See Item 2 for details. It's really very easy to do.

1. Organizational notes.

Walter Judd (University of Florida) has joined Norton Miller (New York State Museum) and Carroll Wood (Arnold Arboretum) in the final phase of the Generic Flora Project. Carroll will continue as one of the three leaders of the project. He expects to review manuscripts and to help in other ways, particularly by preparing some of the installments. Walt's and Norton's applications to the NSF last summer were successful, although the proposed budgets had to be reduced. Funds received by their respective institutions will be used in part for the appointment of a Research Associate at the University of Florida and another one at the New York State Museum.

In the summer of 1995 Wendy Zomlefer (Ph.D., University of Florida) will be joining Walt at Gainesville, and Jorge Arriagada (Ph.D., Ohio State University) will begin his work in Albany. Wendy will tackle many of the Lilialean families, and Jorge will begin on the tribes of Compositae that remain to be done. In addition, Wilma Campbell continues as an Editorial Technician in Albany with Norton. Her duties include ensuring the consistency of manuscript format, copy editing, bibliographic checks, and data file development and dissemination.

2. Information Available on the Internet.

Two authority files and other useful information are now available on the Internet. Our purpose in preparing these has been to facilitate your work and to reduce the number of editorial checks. We encourage you to use the journal abbreviations (which sometimes differ from those in B-P-H and its Supplement) and the names (or abbreviations of authors of plant names), which are in different files. You will need access to the Internet.

GOPHER

Gopher is a menu-driven application. To access the New York State Library's Gopher use the Gopher address unix2.nysed.gov and then make the following choices on each successive menu until you find one called "Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States." Many software packages allow you to save your pathways as a bookmark or in a clipboard, thereby eliminating keystrokes the next time you wish to access the Generic Flora files.

Current "Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States," pathway:

Gopher to: unix2.nysed.gov
-New York State Government Information Locator
--Alphabetical list of NYS Agencies
---New York State Government Executive Branch
----Education Department, New York State
-----New York State Museum
------Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States

Files Available on the Gopher:

Read Me First [This provides background information.]

Authors - Titles of Papers

Chronological List of Papers

Generic Flora of the Southeastern U.S. - Authors of Plant Names

Generic Flora of the Southeastern U.S. - Journal Abbreviations

Index - Families Published

Index - Genera Treated & Illustration

If you wish to search for a specific bit of information instead of browsing through the files, access the WAIS Searcher at the same site. Again, Gopher to unix2.nysed.gov and then make the following menu choices:

Gopher to: unix2.nysed.gov
-New York State Government Information Locator
--Search the New York State Government Information Locator
---Search the ILS Gopher (WAIS)

You should eventually find a screen that reads: Search the ILS Gopher (WAIS). You may then enter any keyword, author, plant name, etc., and all of the files housed at this site will be searched. The WAIS searches all files in the Gopher. Therefore, if the author's name you are searching for happens to coincide with a New York State legislator's name you will get a mixture of hits (Generic Flora and citations to the legislator's work). Another search strategy will be needed, for example, the full name of a Generic Flora author.

The pathway to the GFSEUS Gopher files may change at any time without notification. Files have also been known to "disappear." If you cannot find the files you need, please send a short e-mail message to Norton at: nmiller2@mail.nysed.gov and he will attempt to redirect you or get the files back on-line.

FTP

The same files that appear on the Gopher Server are also available for downloading to your site. They are stored at the NYS Library anonymous FTP site (unix2.nysed.gov) in WordPerfect 5.1 format. Use your file transfer protocol (FTP) application to access this site, fill in the User Name (type in anonymous), Password (your e-mail address), and then locate the files in the pub directory. The files in this directory are in alphabetical order, so you will have to page or click your way past all of the New York State budget documents to locate the Generic Flora information.

Files Available:

gfseus.readme - Background information

gfseusja.wp5 - Journal Abbreviations Cited

gfseuspn.wp5 - Authors of Plant Names Cited

gfseusat.wp5 - Authors and Titles of Papers Published

gfseusfa.wp5 - Index to Families Published

gfseusch.wp5 - Chronological List of Papers Published

gfseusgi.wp5 - Index to Genera Treated and Illustrated

The Journal Abbreviations and Authors of Plant Names files are quite large (395.7K and 214.4K). You may wish plan for their storage if the memory capacity of your own computer is limited.

WORLD WIDE WEB

Kent Perkins at the University of Florida Herbarium has added a link to some of our GFSEUS files through their World Wide Web home page. The Universal Resource Locator (URL) of this home page is:

http://nabalu.flas.ufl.edu/flashome

Authors of Plant Names (and the abbreviations we use in the Generic Flora papers) and Journal Abbreviations are currently available from this source.

Other files will be added in the months ahead.

We are presently assembling a list of all Floras already cited in the 140 published installments and the standard abbreviations we use. When this task is completed (sometime this summer) the file will be added to those already on the Gopher Server.

For those without access to the Internet these same files are available on diskette (in WordPerfect 5.1 or ASCII format), or, if necessary, as paper copy. However, we will be continuing to update the files as manuscripts are reviewed. We will attempt to keep the file on the Gopher Server up to date. If you need disk or paper files, contact Norton Miller at the Biological Survey, New York State Museum, CEC 3140, Albany, NY 12230.

Paper 154. Manning, S. A. The genera of Bignoniaceae in the southeastern United States. [Seven genera; MS in preparation.]

4. Work in Progress.

James Affolter & Lincoln Constance: Umbelliferae

Jorge Arriagada: Anthemideae (Compositae)

Jorge Arriagada: Helenieae (Compositae)

Jorge Arriagada: Heliantheae (Compositae)

Jorge Arriagada: Inuleae (Compositae)

Philip Cantino: Labiatae and Avicenniaceae

Peter Goldblatt: Iridaceae

Robert Haynes: Zosteraceae

Walter Judd: Chenopodiaceae

Walter Judd: Flacourtiaceae

Walter Judd & Wendy Zomlefer: Trilliaceae and Smilacaeae

Eric Lamont: Eupatorieae (Compositae)

Alan Meerow, Walter Judd, & Wendy Zomlefer: Asparagales

Norton Miller: Moraceae

Norton Miller & George Argus: Salicaceae

Norton Miller & C. Thomas Philbrick: Callitrichaceae

Lytton Musselman & Norton Miller: Santalaceae

Peter Raven & Peter Hoch: Onagraceae

George Rogers: Rubioideae (Rubiaceae)*

Gustavo Romero and collaborators: Orchidaceae

Roger Sanders: Verbenaceae

John Semple: Astereae

John Thieret: Cymodoceaceae

Gordon Tucker: Chloridoideae (Gramineae)

Carroll Wood: Faboideae (Leguminosae)

Carroll Wood: Haloragaceae

Carroll Wood: Lentibulariaceae

Carroll Wood & Norton Miller: Aristolochiaceae

Wendy Zomlefer: Cactaceae

Wendy Zomlefer & Walter Judd: Cucurbitaceae

Wendy Zomlefer & Walter Judd: Liliales**

Wendy Zomlefer & Walter Judd: Melanthiaceae

* tentative
** Other Liliales will be partitioned into a number of monophyletic families and so treated, cf. Trilliaceae above.

5. Guidelines for Authors.

All collaborators should have a copy of Outlines and Comments for Contributors to the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States. This five page summary presents an outline of the sequence of topics we cover in every treatment and how these are organized (but also see any of the published installments). We try to make the bibliographies as complete as possible, but for well-studied groups with an extensive literature only summary papers and the pertinent primary literature should be included, otherwise a manuscript will grow too long for the space available. Published Floras (both regional and extra-regional ones) and relevant major references on subjects useful to systematics should be checked and added (for example, seeds, seedlings, anatomy, floral biology, secondary chemicals, and many others). When the title of a paper is not self-explanatory, please annotate the entry with a succinct description of its contents. Place this in brackets [ ] at the end of the citation. Check any of the published installments for examples. To ensure accuracy, please check each bibliographic entry word for word and number for number. We can not do this for you, but we are prepared to help with difficult entries or those that are hard to locate.

We encourage you to prepare your manuscript using a word-processing program such as WordPerfect 5.1, which we use. Electronic storage allows revisions to be made rapidly. Also, we will use the reviewed, edited, and revised version of your manuscript as it is stored on a diskette in the production of camera-ready pages for proofing and for printing once your manuscript has been revised for the last time. The "Outline" includes some guidelines for keyboarding. The most important of these are:

Text justification and word hyphenation. Please do not pass your document through a hyphenating program before sending it to the editors. Do not use right or full justification when you establish a file for your manuscript.

Footnotes - Do not include unless necessary. Do not place footnotes in the text. Any necessary footnotes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the end of your manuscript.

Format lines - Other than the initial format line for your document, please do not insert additional formats (changes in tab stops, margin changes, etc.). An exception would be for your key, and this may be added to the end of your manuscript.

6. What You Can Do to Help Us Now.

Walt and Norton would welcome being sent a status report on your treatment(s). We will use this information to help prepare a schedule and a time table, which will be printed in the next newsletter. Send a brief report by letter, telephone, FAX, or e-mail to either Walter or Norton at the addresses given below.

Also, if your address (mail, e-mail) or telephone or FAX number(s) as given below, have changed, please pass this information along too, as quickly as possible.

8. Important e-mail Addresses.

Norton: nmiller2@mail.nysed.gov

Walter: lyonia@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu

GFSEUS Project intro page on this WWW server
GFSEUS gopher server at the NY State Museum
Issue 1 was prepared at the Biological Survey, New York State Museum.
Last content update: 8 Aug 1995. Converted to HTML by Kent Perkins at the UF Herbarium.